Word: pragmatist
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...junta ignored. Exile groups speculated these rare meetings might signal at least a token effort by the generals to address widespread international condemnation of last week's crackdown. Rumors that Than Shwe, who has been ill for years, has picked junta No. 3 Shwe Mann - a purported economic pragmatist - as his favored successor have also raised hopes. But a change of guard may not mean much. The Burmese military has ruled with an iron grip for 45 years, and predicting its demise - or even nascent reform within its ranks - is a dangerous bet. Burma's generals may be faceless...
David Talbot's lead story argues that Kennedy was less a cold warrior than a warrior for peace, that he was a man who despised war and sought above all to avoid nuclear conflict. The Kennedy who emerges is a wily pragmatist who had certain moral limits that he would not compromise. In November 1961, Kennedy gave a speech in which he said that there was nothing "soft" about averting nuclear war and that America showed its true strength when it avoided using military force...
...bipartisanship wears none of the lacy finery of a civics-class lecture. It is a strategy perfected in the bygone era of Democratic dominance of Congress. Dingell knows a purist in his own party can slow him down more than a pragmatist across the aisle. So he likes to get started on a big initiative by cutting a deal with a ranking Republican. Only then does he turn to battle his fellow Democrats...
...earlier conservative inclinations. He moved to repair relations with China and South Korea, which had been damaged by his predecessor Junichiro Koizumi's repeated visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine where Japan's World War II military leaders are commemorated. Abe quickly earned a reputation as a pragmatist smart enough to prevent ideology from getting in the way of good foreign policy...
...reconfirming old stereotypes. Miho Nakazono, a writer for the show, told a Japanese paper recently: "I feel the performance-based system is not suited for the Japanese. The important point is to coexist." Haruko stands out at the start of Haken because she doesn't need the company; a pragmatist who depends on performance over work relationships, she toils in the office, but she's not of the office. By the end of the series, however, expect Haruko to happily abandon the life of a temp for the warm, sticky familial embrace of the company...